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INDONESIAN special forces soldiers based in the Papuan town of Merauke regularly abduct Papuans from the streets and their homes and and beat people indiscriminately, a report from Human Rights Watch says....

IN hindsight it was naive, possibly stupid.
Venturing into a troubled province on foreign soil with no official documentation was never going to end well.
But the five middle-aged Torres Strait residents – pilot William “Scotty” Scott-...

FIVE Australians held prisoner in the Indonesian province of Papua celebrated their long-awaited return home yesterday with a meat pie and a beer, expressing their delight to be back but anger at their treatment by authorities....

VERA Scott-Bloxam kissed the nose of her husband's light aircraft yesterday morning as the moment they had waited nine months for finally arrived.
Pilot William Scott-Bloxam fired up the twin engines and the couple, along with friends Hubert Hofer, Keith...

ONLY 15 minutes from their scheduled departure, the five Australian tourists detained for nine months in Indonesia's Papua province had their homecoming aborted yester- day.
As immigration officials strode towards the Australians' light plane at Merauke ...

Thirteen-year-old Isak Pesakot was shot and killed by Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers patrolling in the Keerom regency, Papua, on Monday.Lt. Col. Susilo, spokesperson of the Papua Military Command, confirmed the incident on Tuesday....

We are all familiar with Indonesia's terrible record of human rights abuse in East Timor, a sorry tale of oppression, murder and torture. East Timor became something of a cause celebre, as the world woke up to the facts of Indonesia’s illegal invasi...

Today Behalf of the 250 Tribe I would like to big thank you for allowing me to talk about West Papuan Faith and justice.Faith for freedom for West Papuan Peoples is very Strong because faith is one of their fundamental right to be free from Indonesia.In W...

THE five Australians stuck in the remote Indonesian town of Merauke for the past nine months have been cleared of any wrongdoing by Indonesia's Supreme Court, paving the way for their freedom and return home.
William Scott Bloxam, his wife Vera, Hubert H...

A self-styled exiled administration, the West Papua National Authority, says it’s investigating the two-week occupation of an airstrip in Papua’s Mamberamo Raya regency which ended on Sunday when Indonesian anti-terror police regained control ...

A supporter of five Australians detained in Indonesia since September for flying into Papua without visas or flight clearance says the group won’t be celebrating their release until they’re back in Australia.
The five are to be set free after...

A leading human rights lawyer in West Papua, Anum Siregar has expressed her concern that there has been no follow-up regarding the shooting dead of Opinus Tabuni, who died during an event to commemorate the anniversary of indigenous people's day on 9 Augu...

KOMPAS.com - The government is sending reinforcement to Papua ahead of the July 8 presidential election by deploying three platoons of the elite police Mobile Brigade (Brimob).Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo A.S. sai...